ALEX KOJO AHIAVE vs. KWAME SASU

GYAESAYOR, JA The defendant/appellant in this appeal is seeking to reverse the judgment of the High Court dated 25th day of April 2012. That judgment granted ownership of the disputed land to the plaintiff/respondent. The defendant/appellant on 2nd May 2012 filed the notice of appeal to challenge the decision of the High Court. Before I deal with the grounds of appeal I intend to give a brief history of the case which culminated in this appeal. It is the case of the plaintiff/respondent that he became the owner of the disputed land at Tantra hills as a result of a gift to him by one Madam Mary Prempeh sometime in 1980. By his statement of claim, he averred that his grantor also got the land as a gift from Dr. Charles Elias Reindorf, the then head and lawful representative of the Onamrokor Adain family. The plaintiff claimed to have erected corner pillars and dug foundation for the construction work on the land. In recent times according to the plaintiff, the defendant who cla...